Finance and Statistics

Materials and Equipment        For Teachers

Please visit our Goals for Achieving Math Accessibility (GAMA) presentations section for additional resources.

Materials and Equipment

Books

Nemeth Code for Mathematics and Science Notation, 1972 Revision
Organization: American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
Cost: $40
Ordering Information:  Catalog number Braille 5-87430-00, print 7-87430-00
Order Online 
Order by Phone: 1-800-223-1839
Order by Mail: Fill out the APH Order Form (pdf) and send to:
APH, P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY 40206-0085 or Fax to 502-899-2274 

Addendum 1 to the Nemeth Code for Mathematics and Science Notation, 1972 Revision: Ancient Numeration Systems
Organization: American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
Cost: $5
Ordering Information: Catalog number Braille 5-68654-00, print 7-68654-00
Order Online 
Order by Phone: 1-800-223-1839
Order by Mail: Fill out the APH Order Form (pdf) and send to:
APH, P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY 40206-0085 or Fax to 502-899-2274 

Learning the Nemeth Code: A Manual for Teachers and Students, 1997
Organization: American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
Cost: Braille $32.49, Print $32
Ordering Information: Catalog number Braille 5-68653-00, print 7-68653-00
Order Online 
Order by Phone: 1-800-223-1839
Order by Mail: Fill out the APH Order Form (pdf) and send to:
APH, P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY 40206-0085 or Fax to 502-899-2274 

Hardware

Accessible Calculators
Independent Living Aids
 offers a large variety of accessible calculators, including large number, talking, scientific, and graphing calculators.  Visit the Web site to view their selection and to make your order.
Organization: Independent Living Aids, LLC.
Cost: $7.95 - $249
Order Online
Order by Phone: 1-800-537-2118

Talking Business Calculator
This is a fully functional business calculator with speech output. Each key is announced when pressed. The visual display calculations and results can be spoken with a press of a button. In addition to the usual arithmetical functions, this calculator offers items such as: repetitive addition/ subtraction, chain multiplication/division, constant multiplication/division, and much more.
Organization: Electronic Technical Services, Inc. (ETS)
Cost: $358.66
Ordering Information: Order Number: Canon TBC-1; Phone: 505-888-3923, 866-700-3923; Fax: 505-888-3926; Mail: Electronic Technical Services, Inc., 211 Conchas SE, Albuquerque, NM 87123

Software

MathTalk/Scientific Notebook
This software package includes Scientific Notebook. Through voice recognition and speech output, this is a self-voicing application allowing one to independently input math equations. The program can provide verbal and Braille output of data that has been sent to the screen and provides nonvisual access to the functionality provided by Scientific Notebook. To take full advantage of this application, Dragon Naturally Speaking must be purchased.
Organization: Metro Plex Voice Computing
Cost: $295; package including Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred, $495; Dragon Naturally Speaking Pro, $940.
Order Online
Order by Mail: Complete the Order Form, print and mail to Metroplex Voice Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 121984, Arlington, Texas 76012 or Fax to 817-543-1103

Scientific Notebook
This is a mainstream application utilized by both blind and sighted people to perform mathematical and graphing functions using a PC. Although menus and operation of the program is generally accessible with speech output, reviewing equations and graphic results with screen access software can be difficult. This software includes the ability to translate math equations to the Duxbury Braille Translator or refreshable Braille displays into the Nemeth Braille code.
Organization:  MacKichan Software, Inc.
Cost: $222; for an upgrade, $52
Order Online
Order by Phone: 360-394-6033

MoneyTalks
This is a self-voicing accessible budgeting application that can be used with popular screen access programs. This application has the capability of handling imported financial statements from checking, savings, and credit card accounts from a financial institution or financial data imported from other financial applications.
Organization: American Printing House for the Blind
Cost: $49.99 by phone or $39.99 by Internet download
Ordering Information: Catalog number D-03560-00.
Order Online 
Order by Phone: 1-800-223-1839
Order by Mail: Fill out the APH Order Form (pdf) and send to:
APH, P.O. Box 6085, Louisville, KY 40206-0085 or Fax to 502-899-2274

For Teachers

Tactile Diagram Manual
This downloadable manual is helpful for educators who would like to convert science and math diagrams into tactile images. 
Organization: Purdue University
Cost: Free
Ordering Information: Download the Tactile Diagram Manual Online 

VIEW International Foundation Tactile Diagrams
This is a large number of tactile diagrams for use in by Purdue students. These diagrams were previously known as the TAEVIS collection.  
Organization: VIEW International Foundation and Purdue Research Foundation
Cost: $59 for individual CDs; $259 for the complete collection of 10 CDs
Order by Phone: 318-396-1853
Order by E-mail: ttsinfo@earthlink.net (please put "tactile diagrams" in the subject line)